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Location

Oslo


About Me:

Telecom professional.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Research and hobby. I fly; Paragliders (real big ones with my self under it). Asw28 composite rc sailplane. 2.6m wingspan. Trex250 Trex450 Parkzone Radian Parkzone Radian Pro Xen Skywalker 168cm FPV and finally but not last; Hobbyking 168 FPV fiberglass with nitro engine. Using my ardupilot mega and other stuff with all of above (except paraglider). Have a futaba fasst radio, but lately i have used my Turnigy x9 with er9x firmware mostly.


Hometown:

Oslo


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Thomas Nilsen commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Dual camera head for photomapping (visible and IR) - probably world's first civilian installation
"You could probably set a specific focus, zoom and timer value so that both are equal using the CHDK kit for Canon. Then you could probably get two photos taken at exactly same time with same parameters."
May 10, 2011
Thomas Nilsen commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Dual camera head for photomapping (visible and IR) - probably world's first civilian installation
"I found this site which converts stock canon cameras etc to IR and other bands.
http://www.maxmax.com"
May 10, 2011
Thomas Nilsen commented on Krzysztof Bosak's blog post Dual camera head for photomapping (visible and IR) - probably world's first civilian installation
"Very cool! Can we see a sample picture from IR and non-IR?
Where did you get the lens/optics changed?"
May 10, 2011
Thomas Nilsen commented on binzi's blog post APM 2.012 + REMZIBI OSD
"Hi Matthias.
 
I had to change the code to get it to work switching off then on again. Switching off was always possible.
 
I changed the code to this;
 
byte oldOSDSwitchPosition = 1;void read_osd_switch(){    byte osdSwitchPosition =…"
May 10, 2011
Thomas Nilsen commented on binzi's blog post APM 2.012 + REMZIBI OSD
"Found a bug in your code handling the on/off switch.
 
byte readOSDSwitch(void){      int osdPulseWidth = APM_RC.InputCh(OSD_MODE_CHANNEL - 1);    if (osdPulseWidth >= 1450)  return 2;    // Off    return 1;}void set_osd_mode(int mode){       …"
May 7, 2011
Thomas Nilsen commented on Skydog222's photo
"Nice gcs case. What model number is this pelicase?"
May 2, 2011
Thomas Nilsen replied to Thomas Nilsen's discussion Hyperspectral camera
"I found something cool looking for night cameras.
 
http://www.maxmax.com/canon_powershot_sd780is.htm
 
These guys convert standard cameras to nightmode etc. With very good results by the looks of it.
 
This together with Canon developer/hacker kit…"
Apr 27, 2011
Thomas Nilsen posted a discussion
Anyone found a hyperspectral, or atleast extended spectrum camera that can visualize in complete darkness?Basically a night vision camera without the need of adding ir light itself. For sensitive enough cameras even dark nights should be possible to…
Apr 27, 2011
Thomas Nilsen commented on Chris Anderson's blog post APM 2.0 beta released!
"Any news on the 2.4 xbee and telemetry problems? I found out that the IMU board can read from Port3 if i hardwire-loop it and write out on Port3. Same with data from Xbee. Hardware looping RX/TX on xbee board causes successfull loopback. So it seems…"
Apr 25, 2011